Social Anxiety, Public Self-Consciousness, and Social Self-Efficacy among School-Age Stutterers and Non-Stutterers

Shinobu Murase Hiroshima

The purpose of this study was to compare the levels of social anxiety, public self-consciousness and social self-efficacy among school-age stutterers to those among non-stuttering controls. The results revealed that the level of social self-efficacy from school-age stutterers was significantly lower than that from non-stuttering controls, although the levels of social anxiety and public self-consciousness from the two groups were not significantly different. Results indicated that school-age stutterers seem to have low self-efficacy regarding their social skills. Clinical indications from the results will be discussed.